The Kennel Club and Dogs Trust have broadly welcomed Professor Sir Patrick Bateson’s ‘Independent Inquiry into Dog Breeding’, which has recommended that steps be taken to tackle irresponsible breeders and to change the way the public think about buying dogs. 

These organisations, who commissioned and funded the report, welcome the report’s focus on irresponsible breeders who farm puppies with little concern for their welfare and those who sell poorly socialised puppies on to owners to use as ‘status dogs’ or as fighting weapons.

It is agreed that the education of puppy buyers should be stepped up to help them avoid falling prey to a puppy farmer by directing them to responsible breeders, and that the compulsory microchipping of all dogs would help authorities to trace disreputable breeders. 

It is agreed that future decisions about breeding should be made on a breed by breed and dog by dog basis, based upon evidence based scientific information, and that expert knowledge should be harnessed in order to support efforts in this direction.

The organisations particularly welcome the report’s recommendation that the Dangerous Dogs Act should be overhauled to tackle those who breed and rear dogs as weapons and that the legislation should apply to all dogs that have been shown to be dangerous rather than to specific breeds.

The Kennel Club and Dogs Trust now are to convene a meeting between all relevant parties in order to move forward with the recommendations from all three reports.

For further information on both organisations’ responses to the detail of the report visit: www.thekennelclub.org.uk and www.dogstrust.org.uk

Or please contact:

Kennel Club Press Office 020 7518 1008/ 07800 937070 press.office@thekennelclub.org.uk

Dogs Trust Press Office 020 7 837 0006/ 07768 616280 pressoffice@dogstrust.org.uk

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